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Perl's power is in the CPAN

Submitted by Matt on Thu, 27/08/2009 - 5:42pm

Perl is a general purpose computer programming language originally designed to help with making report processing easier. Today it is used for a wide range of tasks.

CPAN is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. CPAN contains over 16,000 modules. Each module contains a library of routines that help complete various tasks.

At WebsitePlus we use Perl for batch processing files.

Modules on CPAN range from PDF manipulation, various APIs (interfaces for web based services like Google) through to interfaces for linguistics.

Visit http://search.cpan.org/ for a summary of CPAN modules.

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